even though aircraft accidents are not as common as accidents and other means of transport
they are more dangerous and very difficult to survive in case they have kicked in but some
pilots have got their names written in records for performing incredible maneuvers and landing
their damaged aircrafts in impossible places from landing an aircraft with failed engines
to ditching in freezing waters to landing a torn off plane ceiling aircraft to a missile shoot down
aircraft to landing the aircraft on its belly to landing a plane after a bomb exploded on it and
gliding a plane without fuel for miles here are 15 impossible miracle landings in aviation history
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cathay pacific flight 780 on april 13 2010 two cathay pacific pilots safely landed an airbus a330
carrying 309 passengers and a crew of 13 at hong kong international airport despite the
failure of both engines as flight 780 neared hong kong the crew were unable to change the
thrust output of the engines the engines were damaged due to the contamination of the fuel
taken on board at surabaya which gradually damaged both engines of the aircraft this made the two
australian pilots malcolm waters and david hayjo to land the aircraft at almost twice the speed
of a normal landing suffering minor damage all 322 passengers on the plane were saved
taka flight 110 on may 24 1988 taka flight 110 was flying from belize to new orleans
when the aircraft encountered a severe level four thunderstorm activity on its final approach to its
destination as a result the brand new boeing 737-300 suffered flameout in both engines
this caused the aircraft to start descending onto the ground
realizing that reigniting both damaged malfunctioning engines was futile and
no runway was reachable with the remaining altitude and airspeed this meant that the
pilots had a few seconds to think and save all the 45 people on the plane as the aircraft descended
through the lower layer of storm clouds the pilot saw a wide canal in front of them and
initially decided to ditch the aircraft in the river with the flaps and gear retracted
just few second from their decision first officer lopez spotted a grass levy to the right of the
canal and suggested that the emergency landing be attempted there this was quite risk as the grass
was in a swampy wetland however captain dardano agreed and dead stick the crippled plane in an
unpowered glide onto the narrow grass on the grounds of the nasa [ __ ] assembly facility
u.s airways flight 1549 on january 15 2009 the now most famous miracle water landing that has
been dubbed the miracle on the hudson made by u.s airways pilot captain chesley sullenberger
by safely gliding the plane onto the hudson river after it lost all engine power an airbus a320 with
155 passengers on a flight from new york city's laguardia airport to charlotte north carolina
was struck by a flock of birds after takeoff the plane had less than four minutes to crash if the
pilot did not decide quickly in the seconds that followed captain chesley weighed his options which
included turning back to laguardia or landing at new jersey's teterboro airport but it was too far
for him to make it in time he decided to ditch the aircraft in the freezing hudson river passing
around 270 meters above the george washington bridge all 155 people on board were rescued by
nearby boats with only a few serious injuries this water landing of a powerless jetliner with
no deaths became known as the miracle on the hudson and a national transportation safety
board official described it as the most successful ditching in aviation history
british airways flight 5390. on june 10 1990 british airways flight 5390 suffered an explosive
decompression after 13 minutes into the flight that took off from birmingham airport in england
when the captain's improperly installed windscreen panels separated from its frame and blew out
the sudden pressure change sucked captain tim lancaster partially out of the aircraft
and the only part saved from getting out the aircraft was his legs which were being held by
flight attendant neil ogden who desperately held onto his ankles for almost 20 minutes
co-pilot alastair atchison had to put on his oxygen mask and landed at southampton airport
the crew thought lancaster had died because his head had been banging against the side of
the cockpit but luckily he only went into a coma and suffered minor injuries and everyone survived
aloha airlines flight 243. on april 28 1988 aloha airlines flight 243 was a scheduled
flight between hilo and honolulu in hawaii when a boeing 737-297 suffered extensive damage after
an explosive decompression and flight at an altitude of 24 000 feet above the sea
the ceiling of the aircraft was torn open and the passenger side nearly separated from the pilot's
side the captain felt the aircraft rolled to the left and right and the controls went loose the
first officer noticed pieces of grey insulation floating above the cabin the cockpit door had
broken away and the captain could see blue sky where the first class ceiling had been luckily
enough the pilots were able to land the serious damaged aircraft carrying 89 passengers with only
one member of the crew being sucked out during the decompression and her body was never found
dhla 300 on 22nd november 2003 an airbus a300b4 cargo plane owned by european air transport
was doing business as usual as dhl express on a scheduled flight from baghdad airport
to muharak bahrain when it was struck on the left wing by a ground-to-air missile at 8 000
feet severe wing damage resulted in a fire and complete loss of hydraulic flight control systems
which meant the flaps spoilers ailerons and rudder were all inoperable with the left wing
on fire the pilot skillfully used thrust vector to successfully maneuver the aircraft using
alternating engine power in an incredible feat of impromptu learning and controlling the aircraft
with just eight minutes before the fire can consume the all plane despite major damage
to a wing total loss of hydraulic control linking fuel a faster speed that is not safe for landing
and a ground path which veered off the runway surface plus onto unprepared runway ground
the crew were able to land the aircraft without going
beyond the runway in baghdad that was surrounded by an uncleared minefield
air transit flight 236 on august 24 2001 air transit flight 236 was having its
flight for lisbon portugal from toronto canada when suddenly it went out of fuel
and lost both of its engine power 300 miles away from lisbon
the airbus a330 ran out of fuel due to a fuel leak caused by improper maintenance
captain robert pitch an experienced glider pilot and first officer dirk de jager glided the plane
to a successful emergency landing in the azores saving all 306 people this was also the longest
passenger aircraft glide without engines gliding for nearly 75 miles or 120 kilometers
lot polish airlines 767 on november 1st 2011 a lot polish airlines 767 made an emergency
landing without landing wheels after a flight from newark to warsaw poland after its landing gear
failed to extend a leak in one of the aircraft's hydraulic systems occurred shortly after takeoff
resulting in the loss of all of the hydraulic fluid supplying the primary landing gear system
a hydraulic leak meant that the main landing gear could not be deployed
within 30 minutes of departing from newark the crew received a warning that the centre
hydraulic system had malfunctioned the decision was made to continue to warsaw
in order to use up the heavy load of fuel needed for the transatlantic flight
it was only on the landing approach when the landing gear didn't deploy that the realization
was that the aircraft would be landing without wheels attempts to lower the landing gear by
alternative means failed and the aircraft circled for an hour to burn off excess fuel
the crew made a successful smooth belly landing that saved the lives of all 231 people on board
southwest airlines flight 1380. on april 17 2018 an american x fighter pilot saved the
lives of 148 people on border plane by making a successful emergency landing after one of the
passenger jets engines exploded southwest airlines flight 1380 was a boeing 737 h4 that was having
its usual flight after departing from new york laguardia airport on route to dallas love field
the engine cowl was broken in the failure and cowl fragments damaged the fuselage
causing explosive depressurization of the aircraft after damaging a cabin window
other fragments caused damage to the wing the explosion that blew out one of the
cabin windows killed one passenger after he got partially ejected from the aircraft
however captain tammy remained calm as she steered the single-engine aircraft
to land at philadelphia international airport that was 10 minutes from the incident of the explosion
philippine airlines flight 434 on december 11 1994 philippine airlines flight 434 was flying
from cebu to tokyo on a boeing 747 283 b when a bomb attached to one of the seats exploded
immediately after the explosion the aircraft banked hard to the right but the autopilot
quickly corrected the bank when the autopilot was deactivated to check the damage caused by bomb
the plane was not responding the steering inputs from either controller had been damaged
the crew struggled to use the ailerons which could allow the aircraft to roll
but were still unable to change the plane's direction after thinking through the different
hypothetical methods of control the crew settled on using asymmetric thrust to control the jet
by using the throttles to steer the plane reducing air speed to both controlled the radius of turns
and to allow the plane to descend and dumping fuel to lessen the strain on the landing gear
the captain landed the damaged 747 at naha airport one hour after the bomb exploded with
only one dead passenger from the bomb explosion other 272 passengers and 20 crew members survived
air canada flight 143 now known as the gimli glider the new and state-of-the-art boeing
767-200 was operating a flight from montreal to edmonton on july 23 1983 when an alert
competed inconceivably prompted the pilots with a warning that they had run out of fuel
the reason for this was that the refuelling of the aircraft was mistakenly done in metric units
that the crew had mistaken for gallons along with a faulty fuel quantity indication system
which resulted in the aircraft carrying only 45 of its required fuel load amazingly
captain robert was a sail plane pilot and quickly put the giant 767 200 into optimal
glide mode to maximize flight distance to glide the aircraft to winnipeg within range
even more fortunate was that first officer maurice quintel had been stationed at gimli air force base
prior to the incident and knew this landing strip was even closer with only ram air turbine power to
control the aircraft speed on landing a miraculous emergency landing occurred where the collapse of
the front landing gear meant that the aircraft ground to a halt and prevented any casualties
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